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By SAL BOMMARITO Special to the Beaver f‘”ith the New Democratic Party‘s Aug. 1st Social ? Contract deadline looming, Oakville Town [‘ V Council unanimously approved a threeâ€"year plan to trim more than $4 million from its employee payroll durâ€" ing a special council meeting Wednesday night. Town trims $4â€"M from payroll to meet Social Contract deadline Today Paper A Metroland Community Newspaper Vol. 31 No. 90 CLASSIFIED Internal struggle Famine relief mission had lasting impact on actress Page 10 Oakville Place Mall Q.E.W. Trafalgar Road, Oakville 15â€"16 ..................... 19â€"22 Town manager Harry Henderson announced prior to the meeting the town had reached agreements with four of its union and nonâ€"union employee groups, adding two other groups â€" the Ontario Professional Fire Fighters Association and Canadian Auto Workers Local 1256 representing Oakville Transit workâ€" ers â€" were set to ratify their agreeâ€" ments. We have very good news as to the work we‘ve been doing with our union and nonâ€"union groups," Henderson told council. Henderson said the agreement had already been ratified by Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 136, representing By DEREK COOMBER Special to the Beaver former Oakville town planâ€" _ ning official sent a message k. to town residents this week from the floodâ€"ravaged c1ty of St. Louis, Missouri, where is is assistâ€" ing hundreds of homeless, poor families. "Tell them to think themselves lucky," said Tom Heath of Lambeth Road, speaking of the benefits which Oakville people have accrued as a result of the foresight of Ontario development authorities in the Fifties in taking action to avoid possible flood catastrophes. Such guidelines influenced council members to halt any Oakville resident helps U.S. flood victims cope Buy a Party Pak of Timbits at the Family Pak price! Present this coupon at any Oakville Tim Hortons location and receive a 65 Timbit Party Pak at the 45 Timbit Family Pak price. That‘s 20 timbits free! Offer good until August 15, 1993. Coupon has no cash value and may not be combined with any other offers. * 125 Cross Ave. +2303 Lakeshore Rd. W. +386 ltoquols Shore Rd. . #5 . #25 +Hoj Mall +2322 Royal Windsor +135 Trafaigar Rd. + 1027 Speers Rd. +754 Bront 38 Wyecroft d. +0 Place +270 N. Servlee (T (See ‘Wages‘ page 4) Good planning prevents mass flooding here says former town planner schemes to allow homes near the town‘s creeks and rivers and likely flood plains. Heath was a member of the council planning department from 1967 until the early Seventies. He is currently part of a Canadian Red Cross voluntary team from across Ontario helping Lynn Munari, of the Kerr Street Merchant‘s Association, clowns around with twoâ€"yearâ€"old Chanel Peters at Wednesday‘s groundâ€" ‘One of the things we were able to do in Oakville was to keep developâ€" ment out of the flood plain. breaking festmtles. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1993 Tom Heath U.S. Red Cross teams in emergency response aid to floodâ€"hit midâ€"westâ€" ern states. A member of the Mississauga Red Cross branch, Heath is helping families whose homes and lives have been wrecked by bursting levees and the cresting Mississippi River in recent weeks. This weekend will see the end of the second week of his threeâ€"week assignment in St. Louis. In a teleâ€" phone interview he said the confluâ€" ence of the Illinois, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers looks like "a gigantic lake". Waters may not recede for at least a month. Heath is also a retired officer from the Canadian Army Reserve with experience in flood and forest fire evacuation operations in (Photo by Peter McCusker) (See ‘Merchants‘ page 3) 24 Pages By ANGELA BLACKBURN Oakville Beaver Staff Kerr Street err Street‘s time has come. It was the place to be lunchtime Wednesday. Children munched BBQ*d hotâ€" dogs, dancing in what used to be Cowan Avenue with "Leo" the mascot and clowns. Strains of "Enjoy Yourself by the Oakville Seniors‘ Harmoni Chords heralded the arrival of a backhoe which rolled away sod to ceremonially start the longâ€"awaitâ€" ed Kerr Street rejuvenation. Asphalt, curbs and barricades were the scenery, but it‘s not what Ward 2 councillor Kathy Graham saw. The councillor‘s vision was of the new pedestrian promenade, sculpture and evergreen that should stand where Cowan Avenue used to by this November â€" a vision the councillor has held onto tight for the last decade. Taking credit for only the lobâ€" bying â€" and thanking fellow counâ€" cillors for not trying to make cutâ€" backs at the expense of Kerr Street‘s streetscape plan â€" Graham tipped her hat to town staff and the newly active Kerr Street Merchants‘ Association â€" particuâ€" larly local merchant Lynn Munari Now he is trying to help bankrupt farmers and helpless famiâ€" lies from lowâ€"lying land areas near the Missouri capital. The Red Cross team is helping with aid, counâ€" selling, and temporary accommodaâ€" tion needs. Canada over the last ten years. Although an elder at Trafalgar Presbyterian Church on Trafalgar Road at Upper Middle, Heath admitted on a CBC television interâ€" view this week that his counselling skills are not too great when dealâ€" ing with the anguish of the devasâ€" tated flood victims, whose numbers grow daily from the disaster which has killed more than 40 people. 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